Identification of a novel tissue-specific processed HPRT gene and comparison with X-linked gene transcription in the Australian marsupial Macropus robustus

Gene

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-95

  Noyce, Leonie ^a   Conaty, Jason ^b   Piper, Anita A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Isoelectric focusing; Liver specific; Phylogeny; RT PCR; Testes

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ISOENZYMES; LIVER; MALE; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MACROPUS ROBUSTUS; MACROPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 0031579461     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00686-5     Document Type: Article

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